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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
RSS is Now Integrated into Yahoo Mail and Alerts  —  Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products.  They have integrated an RSS reader directly into Yahoo Mail Beta, and are expanding Alerts to include RSS feeds.
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Jfurrier / Podtech.net:
PodTech Exclusive: Yahoo! RSS Goes Mainstream with Yahoo! Mail and Alerts  —  Download to MP3: Exclusive Yahoo! Podcast - RSS Goes Mainstream with Yahoo! Mail and Alerts  —  The PodCast:  —  PODTECH EXCLUSIVE - YAHOO! PODCAST MEDIA RELEASE  —  In another PodTech Podcast InfoTalk exclusive …
Scott Gatz / Scott Gatz's Blog:
Yahoo Mail's full post RSS reader  —  As you can probably guess, I'm a big fan of My Yahoo! And use it as the primary way I keep up with RSS feeds and all sorts of other content.  I love it because I can quickly see all my news at a glance in a format of my own choosing.
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Yahoo! expands RSS services to Mail (beta) and Alerts  —  Yahoo! announced that it will be extending its current RSS capabilities in two areas:  —  1) Yahoo! Alerts will now be RSS enabled.  This means that when a new item is posted to a feed, a Yahoo! user can have the post be sent …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tests classifieds service  —  Microsoft is developing a free online service that will let people list items for sale, events and other classifieds-type of information that can be shared either with groups of friends or anyone over the Internet, the company said Tuesday.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft tries classifieds  —  An upcoming online classified service from Microsoft Corp. may sound like Craigslist or the new Google Base, but the team behind the project says it found inspiration closer to home.  —  Microsoft employees have long used an internal listing service to sell …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
No Vista Beta 2 this year  —  The second beta of Windows Vista will not come until next year, Microsoft said Tuesday.  —  The software maker did not give a time frame for the release of Beta 2 of the operating system, and said only that it would have more to say next year.
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft proud to hand over Vista 'features' early
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Stowe Boyd / Get Real:
Corante 2.0: Hubs In A Network Of Stars  —  Today, after years (literally) of discussion and planning, we are opening the kimono on Corante 2.0.  The most obvious manifestation of the new Corante — leaving aside the first of our Corante events, the Symposium on Social Architecture …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THINKING ABOUT GOOGLE AND THE TURNING POINT  —  Has the worm turned?  That's the question a lot of folks are asking about Google these days, not the least of which is John Heilemann, whose piece has opened up a great discussion in the comments area of my post about it.
Discussion: IP Democracy and A VC
MSN Search's WebLog:
Come Visit the MSN Search Team  —  A little over a year ago we began inviting groups of academics, bloggers, siteowners, and technologists out to Redmond to talk about search.  We call them Search Champs.  We usually select this group based on who we are reading and we think would provide us great insight.
Mark Glaser / Online Journalism Review:
Will NPR's podcasts birth a new business model for public radio?  —  How the public radio giant has become a leading podcaster in just two months.  Plus, a fond farewell from this columnist.  —  Last summer, the folks running National Public Radio started to get a clear message …
Discussion: Technology360
Reuters:
Cingular tests unlimited calls to AT&T home phones … NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless said on Wednesday it is testing a service that allows unlimited calls between its cell phones and the home phones of AT&T's local telephone customers, in an bid to improve customer loyalty.
Discussion: Techdirt and VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Podcast Chaos Be Gone  —  Two new search engines offer to do for podcasting what Technorati does for blogs by letting users search podcasts by keyword to single out audio that suits their interests.  —  Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching.
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
GUERRILLA CAPITALISM  —  Burning Sensation  —  In the beginning, Craigslist was a casual e-mail sent to friends.  Could it end by turning newspaper classifieds to ashes?  —  On an uncharacteristically sunny November day, in an unfashionable neighborhood of San Francisco …
Discussion: Northern Telecom and A VC
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Google Tops the Charts  —  A recent addition to its online services, Google Maps has vaulted to the front of the pack with cool offerings such as satellite imagery  —  THE GOOD Many features, from satellite imagery to draggable maps  —  THE BAD Jumbo maps can be a pain to navigate
Discussion: The Map Room
New York Times:
Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds  —  The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system.
Discussion: Techdirt

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